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Money, Money, Money

Good morning! If there's one thing everyone in and out of politics recognizes, it's that politicking is very expensive. Today's edition, then, will be talking about the Benjamins, with a side order of endorsements and terrorism. That's all after the jump!

Democrats Lacking Money For Party Despite—or potentially because of—the fact that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were dynamic fundraisers, the Democratic convention committee has come up short on funds to spend on the big party in Denver. I guess despite Obama's reputation as an elitist, people are going to have to drink Coors Lite rather than microbrews!

Democratic Donors Unite Clinton and Obama, however, plan to continue exercising their fundraising muscles, having scheduled a special meeting with Clinton's big donors next week in D.C.. It may be the first time that they've seen each other since before she withdrew from the race, so it's sure to be not at all awkward.

Democrats Love John McCain? John McCain is trying desperately to hold onto his image as a maverick who attracts independent voters, so much so that he released a list of 30 "prominent" Democrats and independents who wants him to win. Unfortunately, it turns out that 17 of the 30 have donated to other Republican candidates or endorsed them before, and none of them are actually prominent. I guess that just leaves Joe Lieberman.

Gore Staying Home Despite Al Gore's recent endorsement—and some overexcited and underinformed whispers about his potential as a VP again—don't expect to see much more of Al Gore than you already have. He has no intention of hurting his real job by campaigning for Obama, which is probably lucky for Obama.

Obama and McCain on Terrorists Since everyone in America is really worried about the economy, McCain and Obama have begun sparring about the terrorism. Basically, it's bad and they disagree on how to stop it and it's definitely not something shiny to distract voters from the fact that gas will be about $5/gallon come Election Day.

Do you wish the candidates would talk more about domestic issues and less about foreign ones? Are you going to miss Al Gore (again)? And are you still donating money to candidates . . . or did you ever?

—Megan

PS If you could ask Barack Obama anything, what would it be? Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive will ask the presidential candidate your questions when she sits down with him for a one-on-one. Click here to submit yours. The interview will appear in an upcoming issue of Glamour.